Wearable IoT for Smart Healthcare
Abstract
The remarkable progress achieved in IoT technologies, along with the advent of bio-compatible solutions for flexible and stretchable electronic devices, has revolutionized the approach to delivering care to patients. Wearable IoT gadgets that are designed as smart healthcare systems represent a revolution in remote patient monitoring (RPM), because medical professionals can now monitor physiological parameters in a continuous and real-time manner without having access to traditional clinical settings. The present chapter provides a review of the multi-dimensional architecture of wearable IoT for smart healthcare based on e-textile sensors with edge computing, wireless communication standards, and clinical decision support. It describes transducer materials for textiles, suggests a four-level architecture reference model, compares wireless protocols in terms of energy consumption and latency, looks at Tiny ML implementation in microcontroller-grade processors, touches upon regulatory and cyber security issues, and concludes with three real-world examples.
